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Aside from her fond memories working with such top-level talent, she told TheWrap how she received the one and only acting credit of her career: “Woman with Dog.” Her co-star was her dog, Monkey.

“I had a dog who was like my child, my everything,” she said during a phone interview on Thursday. “I thought, this dog is not going to be around forever, but if I can capture her on film in a Marty movie she will be around forever.”

It took some convincing, recalled Tillinger-Koskoff. “I begged and begged and I finally won him over… I said ‘Please please please let me be ‘Woman with Dog.’ He said, ‘Yes, but the whole point of scene is — just be walking the dog. Don’t react. Don’t do anything. Just walk the dog.'”

Tillinger-Koskoff appears with her dog at the 43-second mark:


“I suddenly got really nervous before my shot,” recalled the producer, who admitted to ruining two takes. “Of course the guys say something to me to which I immediately react — not once but twice. And then finally, the third time, I thought, OK, I just keep walking no matter what they say to me.”

www.thewrap.com/departed-dog-immortalized-by-role-in-the-film/

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The filth and the fury: Taxi Driver, the Ramones and the spirit of 76

Lobbed from the gutters of 1976 New York, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was a film wound tight for hard times. Jon Savage finds echoes of its nihilism and rage in the Ramones’ contemporaneous debut album.

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www.indiewire.com/gallery/martin-scorsese-behind-the-scenes-photos-on-set-mean-streets/

Martin Scorsese Behind the Scenes

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Nice, short IMDB Scorsese video montage


m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wHGYAbhbis



Beautiful, his words from A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies.
Really touching.



"When we talk about personal expression I’m often reminded of [Elia] Kazan’s film America America – the story of his uncle’s journey from Anitolia to America; the story of so many immigrants who came to this country from a very, very foreign land. I kind of identified with it and was very moved by it. Actually, I later saw myself making this same journey, but not from Anitolia. Rather from my own neighborhood in New York, which was in a sense a very foreign land. I made the journey from that land to movie-making, which was something unimaginable. Actually, when I was a little younger, there was another journey I wanted to make. It was a religious one. I wanted to be a priest. However, I soon realized that my real vocation – my real calling – was the movies. I didn’t really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane. Obviously, there are major differences. But I could also see great similarities between a church and a movie house. Both are places for people to come together and share a common experience, and I believe there is a spirituality in films, even if it’s not one that can supplant faith. I find that over the years many films address themselves to the spiritual side of man’s nature, from Griffith’s film Intolerance to John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath to Hitchcock’s Vertigo to Kubrick’s 2001 and so many more.
It’s as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious; they fulfill a spiritual need that people have – to share a common memory.”

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The Big Shave feminist remake...

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At last:

Street Scenes!

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In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese (1998) by Michael Henry Wilson

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by the way, Street Scenes has been taken off youtube but I have it, if anyone's interested, pm me.

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Does anyone have a copy of Notes On An American Film Director At Work by Jonas Mekas? Can't find it anywhere.
Thanks in advance!

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Mama Jeanne was young enough to be Melies' daughter.